First Anniversary Desert Wings Tobruk Community Event - Sat 14 Aug 2030 UTC
Hi All,
To celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the release of IL-2 Sturmovik Desert Wings - Tobruk, Team Fusion Simulations invites players to a special online community event on TFS Server 3.
Time: 2030 to 2330 UTC Date: Saturday 14th August
The server has a maximum of 100 players, so make sure you log in at that time to have the best chance of getting in.
Special invitation to those wo have never experienced the adrenalin rush of online play.
Jump in your favourite Desert War aircraft, or two, catch up with old and new friends on comms, and best of all, have fun.
If your new to online flying and or comms, but want to try, we will have a dedicated TeamSpeak channel for you to drop in, say G'Day (Pattle's an Aussie) and hopefully get you more comfortable in that space.
The Team Speak address is: 104.153.108.10 Password: calais
Scroll down to Saturday Special Event and select Flight 1.
There, you will catch up with TFS's Pattle, and other current and new players.
Once again, thanks to our brilliant community for your ongoing support.
Soon, we hope to announce TFS 6.0 and the planned aircraft set, plus more news on trueSKY and VR.
Very exciting times.
See you on Saturday! :)
Regards,
TFS Team
Next in our 4K/ trueSKY WIP update - Hawker Hurricane
Hawker Hurricane, featuring 4K and trueSKY images from IL-2 Cliffs of Dover Blitz / Desert Wings Tobruk.
Dont forget our Desert Wings Tobruk community event coming up next weekend, Saturday 14th August. More details coming out in the next 24 hrs.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk first anniversary
Today it is exactly a year since IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk took off into action! We would like to thank all of you, who joined the battle for North Africa!
Following on from our very popular Spitfire image update, showcasing 4K textures and new trueSKY images, here are new images of the Bf 109 and trueSKY.
For High Res images:
We will be releasing further updates on trueSKY soon, along with further 4K aircraft images.
Regards,
TFS Team
WIP trueSky and 4K Supermarine Spitfire!
Firstly, thankyou for such an overwhelmingly positive response to the first 4K Bf 109E-7 Trop screenshot we recently posted here.
Over the coming week we will be releasing more screenshots of 4K aircraft, including the Hurricane, Tomahawk, Kittyhawk and more Bf109 images.
First, one of the most famous aircraft of all time. The Supermarine Spitfire.
Some of these screenshots will also include WIP trueSky. A very exciting development for the Cliffs of Dover Blitz/Desert Wings Tobruk universe.
Implementation of trueSKY is a massive undertaking for our very small team involved. Whilst it has taken a good deal longer than anticipated to release, we remain committed to trueSKY and look forward to sharing further WIP images in future updates.
You can see already, that the ability to have 4K graphics, along with the move to trueSKY, and VR will add in incredible amount of immersion to Cliffs of Dover Blitz, and Desert Wings Tobruk.
Please note, with 4k, players will have the option to use 4k, or continue with 2K, depending no doubt, on their machine capabilities and personal preferences.
We are always keen to get our communities thoughts and opinions on our work, so tell us what you think of these images. Regards,
TFS Team
First Look 4K Aircraft!!
Hi All,
For those that like their visuals in 4K, enjoy this sneak peak into the continuous visual development of Cliffs of Dover Blitz and Desert Wings Tobruk!
More information and screenshots coming later this weekend.
Tell us what you think of this stunning 'in game' screenshot of the 4K Bf 109E-7 Trop.
Click on image once, twice, three times for full resolution.
Happy Weekend :)
TFS Team
IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk update 5.024 is here!
Hello pilots! We are reporting back for duty with another update for IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk! This time we bring new fixes and changes for certain missions, corrections for some of the airplanes and a brand new printable table of engines.
As always, we'd like to thank all of our loyal fans who share their feedback in our Steam Forums. Thank you for your support!
Single missions A Busy Morning, Attack of the Eagles, Attack of the Kiwi, August Attrition, Corpo Aereo Italiano, and The Kanalkampf have had anti-air guns, barrage balloons, and scenery extended west to the outskirts of London.
Corrected mixture bug in Hurricane II's which was preventing them from reaching historical ceilings
Corrected Takeoff Weight numbers for Bf-110 Tropical and other models.
Mission building; Class AiAircraft has three new methods concerning Fuel: GetFuelCapacity(), GetCurrentFuelQuantity(), and GetCurrentFuelQuantityInPercent()
ATAG: How to determine aircraft fuel level
New manual: Printable Engine Tables_en.pdf
New upcoming single player campaign - 610 Squadron RAF
Team Fusion Simulations will soon be releasing a new free single player campaign to IL-2 Cliffs of Dover Blitz!
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Comprising 8 missions, the campaign will follow No. 610 SQN as it faces the first week of the Luftwaffe offensive against Kent, with most missions based on real events and timelines.
Some history on 610 Squadron:
610 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was a Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force.
Comprising very high quality pilots, often ex-RAF officers and occasionally locally based company Test pilots from companies such as de Havilland and Airwork.
The Luftwaffe has their work cut our for them taking on these pilots!
Our mission builder is putting the finishing touches on what will be a very exciting and challenging campaign.
We will announce it's release date soon.
Regards,
TFS Team
WIP Spitfire Engine Sound update
WIP improvements to the Spitfire. Not final product.
New sound is built from the ground up harnessing features from FMOD 5, and includes new load effects designed to work in unison with the game driven data as well as new samples at the correct pitch.
The beauty of the loading effects are that when the throttle is pulled back to midrange, the melodious engine effect will be present and in the case of the Merlin's at the correct pitch. It will likely be more noticeable in the finished event.
This new engine sound really provides the sense of the clatter of these enormous engines, with the all the valves and pistons working away.
Let us know what you think.
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Regards,
TFS Team.
To purchase IL-2 Cliffs of Dover Blitz and Desert Wings Tobruk, check out the links.
Following on from our recent screenshots of the work going into making the Spitfire cockpit VR ready, the left side is now complete. The right side is now being upgraded, and we will share pics of that work soon.
Our sound engineer is also working on improvements to a number of areas. Whilst not complete at this time, the famous Spitfire Merlin has never sounded better!
